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Hello Cristian & Gregory,

Thanks for your inputs. It solved some of the problems i was facing.

regards,
sahana

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Cristian Adam <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 10/06/2010 22:52, SAHANA DEVARAJU wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm working on theora in v c++ 2008 express. I'm getting the following
> >> runtime error for the encoder example.
> >> Appreciate all your help.
> >>
> >> debug Error!
> >>
> >> Run-time check failure #3- the variable "sb_full" is being used
> >> without being initialised
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> sahana
> >
> > You should disable "Basic Runtime Check" (/RTCu), for both libtheora and
> > encoder example
> > projects.
>
>
> It's worth elaborating on this, because I don't want people thinking
> that libtheora has known and unfixed problems accessing uninitialized
> variables.
>
>
> In libtheora there are a number of places where an initialization
> isn't obvious to a compiler, usually due to cross function boundaries.
> Some of these places are performance critical.
>
> In order to suppress compiler warnings in places where they would
> incorrectly warn of missing initialization libtheora initializes a
> variable to itself. e.g.
>
> int a=a;
>
> This odd looking code causes GCC (for example) to emit nothing at all,
> so it's the same as "int a;" but it suppresses the warning.
>
> For some odd reason, the Microsoft tool-chain actually generates code
> for the a=a case and then the runtime checker warns on it.  It's a
> harmless warning, however.
>
> The valgrind tool we use on GNU/Linux is far more intelligent with
> uninitialized access checks and isn't confused by this at all.
>

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